The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-23

Cocoanut puddtng--Grate the meat of a
large cocoanHt. Roll fine FIVE Boston
crackers and mix with the oocoanut. add
milk enough to beat, and q tesspoonful
sugar, mix, and bake like cUstard.
Farm Notes.
Give the cattle, sheep and hogs a mess of
sliced pumpkins once day, as pumpkins
serve as an agreeable variety with the
usual dry food.
A Vermont dairyman credits his thirty
cows with 5000 pounds or butter, and es-
Inmates that the skim milk is worth, for
calves and pigs, $500.
Do not be economical with the bedding
material. There should be enough to
| completely absorb all the LIQUIDS as they
are worth more than the bedding material.
1t requires about one-sizteenth less food
| to put an animal in condition in warm
than cold weather. If the dairyman ex-
poets his COWS to be profitable he must
look after their comfort, both as to food
and shelter.
1t is reported that over q, coo head of ma
tive and Texas beef steers were shipped
from Lamar, Colorado, recently, This
gives one an idea of the way range men are
orowding the market with grass cattle this
| fall.
By dint of bribery, bulldozing aud gen.
erai skullduggery, the slaughter of cattle
| in Texas may be delayed, but there is not
money enough in Chicago or meanness
enough in Texas to deprive us much longer
of home market.-Texas Stockman.
Save all the small sweet potatoes for the
| pigs. Nothing will fatten pig so quickly
as sweet potatoes, and they ara very cheap
when only the cuns are used. They should
| not be fed to laying hens, but ara excellent
| for poultry intended for market.
Skim milk thickened with shorts and
corn meal makes almost perfect food for
| growing pigs, and if given three times a
day it will cause them to grow rapidly.
If mess of chopped clover hay (scalded)
be also given once day the pigs will need
nothing else.
Boiled corn is said to produce more pork
/ than the raw kind, and of as good quality.
| The question to be considered, however,
! is not which is the more nutricious, but
| which is the cheaper, es the fuel and labor
| REQUIRED to cook The corn must be deduct
ed as expenses.
There is one advantage possessed by wool
and butter, which IS that both articles can
be shipped at lower cost, in proportion
to value, than most farm products. As
| wool is not perishaSle it can be shipped to
the most distant points, while butter keeps
q long time n winter.
The great rush of cattle to market still
| continues, and the run at the ssockyards
! still keeps up big. The vast amount of
stock On the market keeps prices down
in fact, ii is a wonder that so much beef
can be consumed. Things cannot keep up
this way after the present year.
Do not value hog because it does not
eat much. A good hog mas an excellent
appetite always, and eating large guam
THY of food means rapid growth. Increase
of weight cannot be secured except by the
use of plenty of food. or raw material"
with which to manufacture the product
desired.
Prof. Storer says ratio of thirty pounds
OF pumpkin per COW daily will increase
the flow and improve the quality OF milk
More than this quantity should not be
given. Pumpkins are very cheap food, as
a couple of tons can be grown Ito the acre
with the corn crop. The seeds OF the
pumpkin ought to be removed before
feeding.
Most farmers are not familiar with the
pedigrees OF the best tro!ting families oil
I horses, ard NAV not succeed in breeding
trotters, but -every farmer should aim to
use heavy draught stations with the or
binary farm mares when desiring to raise
colts. 1t costs no more to raise a good
Grade colt than to raise a morgreI, bat
there is great difference in the value al
maturity.
Montana and that latitude is no breed
ing ground for cattle or horses. There
killing winters come and all is lost except
a few of the strongest. 1t may do to riper
steers on when two years old and over, bui
at best females are shy breeders and there
is no profit in the business. Sheep do toll
erably we'll where the rams are separated
, from the fiocks and the lambs made tc
come after the grass is well up.
! Western dairymsn has hit upon very
simple plan Of warming water for his stoct
TO drink in winter, says the M'.,I,ar
Farmer. He put al irop. plate, saw eieh
team inches square. on the bottom OF hi
water tank cutting away the wood, o
. course, where the ir5ff was. Under thi
plate he used an oil stove. he says i
l cents worth of oil day would warm tht
water for sixty COWS up to seventy degrees
or more.
! The shipment of grass yearlings is played
out. The accidental sale of few out of Q
very large herd, OF which most were very
pretty long ones, were ali that have paid SC
far. a long yearliDg roughed or fed over
for the May market will do very we'll as
;wo-year old, but the way Texas yearliue
hsifeIs went to market for a week or two
was demorsIizing. The market overstocked
Sith trash and short of beef, was the report
hat came from Chicago.-Texas Live Stock
Journal.
The following treatment for the reten
tion of afterbirth in COWS is recommended
| NJ a Dakota veterin arian. When the altar